The watch-men that go about the city:]1 To wit the Levites, who answered her with silence; but a little after she found ⟨p. 86⟩succour at Modin, for the Priests, Mattathias and his sons, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, and the rest that went about to repair the ruins of the Church and Common-wealth; to these the faithful Church repairing,* and finding deliverance and comfort, by Judas especially, or rather by Christ in him†, She left him not till she had brought him into the Temple, where she soon after cleansed the Sanctuary, and restored the purity of Gods worship, and offered sacrifice according to the Law, so that she found great comfort and joy in the duties of Gods worship*. Thus again found they Christ in a typical Saviour, held him by faith, and, with courage and zeal, brought him into the Temple and Sanctuary, the house and chamber of her mother; that is, of the former Church of Israel, or of the Catholic Church, for the Church of the former ages is the mother of the latter; or the whole Church is the mother of each part in usual phrase of Hebrew speech: The Temple is the house of both, the Sanctuary is the chamber of her that bare her.
The watch-men that goe about the citie:]1 To wit the Levites, who answered her with silence; but a little after she found ⟨p. 86⟩succour at Modin, for the Priests, Mattathias and his sonnes, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, and the rest that went about to repaire the ruines of the Church and Common-wealth; to these the faithfull Church repairing,* and finding deliverance and comfort, by Judas especially, or rather by Christ in him†, Shee left him not till shee had brought him into the Temple, where she soone after cleansed the Sanctuary, and restored the purity of Gods worship, and offered sacrifice according to the Law, so that she found great comfort and joy in the duties of Gods worship*. Thus againe found they Christ in a typicall Saviour, held him by faith, and, with courage and zeale, brought him into the Temple and Sanctuary, the house and chamber of her mother; that is, of the former Church of Israel, or of the Catholike Church, for the Church of the former ages is the mother of the latter; or the whole Church is the mother of each part in usuall phrase of Hebrew speech: The Temple is the house of both, the Sanctuary is the chamber of her that bare her.
- 1Verse 3.
- *1 Mac. 2. 42, 43.
- †1 Mac. 3. 6,—8.
- *1 Mac. 4. 42, 46.
